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"LE DRIP: The Uncontainable Sauce of Black Essence"
Solo Exhibition by Blu Murphy
Exhibition Dates: April 23 – July 17, 2022*
Exhibition Reception: Friday, May 13, 2022 7 – 10pm
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"I PAINT OUTSIDE OF THE FRAME CUZ OUR SAUCE Tin'T Be CONTAINED"
-Blu Spud
LE DRIP: The Uncontainable Sauce of Blackness Essence is a solo exhibition by Washington, DC based artist Blu Tater , Target Gallery'southward 2022 solo exhibition recipient. The LE DRIP serial is a group of mixed media portraits created as a tribute to the black community and celebrates the essence, beauty, and magic of this resilient and often undervalued group of people. The subject area matters included in this serial are elementary and centre school students who attend a championship one school in southeast D. C., where the artist besides teaches arts pedagogy. Through collage, the creative person has carefully and strategically combined the statement "I Am Art" with graffiti and images that represent black narratives. The portraits in this series offer the viewer an opportunity to challenge their perspectives and run across a subset of individuals who are ofttimes unseen or disregarded as valuable masterpieces.
The white industrial walls of Target Gallery are used as a backdrop to stand for urban communities. Steeped in symbolism, upon entering the gallery, viewers volition observe shoes hanging from a wire anchored in the ceiling. In urban communities, this symbolizes remembrance; we are honoring and remember community members who are no longer with usa.
The series includes fifteen works of art encased in vibrant colored up-cycled frames. Dripping paint "le drip" travels from the portrait to the frame and then onto the gallery wall representing the uncontainable and undeniable sauce of the blackness essence. The ingredients of "the sauce" are rich and include: our combined hurting, triumphs, joys, strength, and swag.
This exhibition was created to claiming the viewer to recall virtually the following questions:
- What do you lot qualify as art?
- What do you lot view equally valuable?
These questions are explored further in a simple, black, and white video created by the artist that features people from her community either boldly making the statement "I Am Art" or expressing why they consider themselves art. She hopes that each viewer will get out with a heightened sense of cocky-honey and a dissimilar perspective on what they authorize as fine art.
About the Artist
Brandy "Blu" Potato (she/her), is a Washington, D. C. based creative person is known for capturing the strength of her subjects through photography and utilizing graffiti, texture, and colour to tell the story of disenfranchised African-Americans who are often unheard and unseen and showcasing them as works of art.
About the Jurors
Maps Glover is an artist and innovator, from his installation and performances at some of the nation'due south premiere stages including the Kennedy Center. Maps' illustrations take also graced the covers of magazines similar The Fray, Hello Mr, and Condé Nast Traveler. His approach to fine art is unique meditative his practice invites the viewer to reimagine the world around them.
Heather Hakimzadeh is the Curator at the Virginia Museum of Gimmicky Art (MOCA). Since her tenure at Virginia MOCA, she has organized over 50 exhibitions ranging from local to internationally recognized artists. Hakimzadeh's recent exhibitions include She Says: Women, Words, and Power, Inka Essenhigh: A Fine Line, and Wayne White: Monitorium. She wrote essays for both Inka Essenhigh'southward monograph and the catalogue that accompanied the seminal group exhibition, Turn the Page: The Outset Ten Years of Hi-Fructose. She earned a B.South. from Carnegie Mellon University, a B.A. in Art History from Old Dominion University, and an Thou.A. in Fine art History from the George Washington University.
Thomas James is a visual arts curator and arts facilitator based in Maryland. An appreciator and collector of fine arts, he highlights working artists and facilitates spaces for creatives to refine and develop their craft. Outset his career in the arts while in higher at Frostburg State University, his offset exhibition was at Mountain City Centre for the Arts, where he was interning. Shortly after graduation, Thomas took an opportunity to independently curate an exhibition on display at the Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts in Annapolis, and it was eventually travelled to George Washington University'south ArtReach Gallery in Washington, DC. Shortly subsequently, Thomas went on to bear a fellowship at The Maryland Federation of Art before joining the Baltimore anchor institution, Creative Alliance, in 2022 through 2021. He now leads the exhibition programming at Eubie Blake Cultural Center in Baltimore. Thomas has curated exhibitions on display at The Phillips Drove, Anne Arundel Community College, Gallery Al-Quds, and Syra Arts. In add-on to curating, Thomas has served equally a writer, designer, consultant, lecturer, and more than for organizations and companies such as Vans, Kaiser Permante, B&O Railroad Museum, Munger, Tolles, & Olsen LLP, Urban Walls Brazil, Reginald F. Lewis Museum, and more. To learn more visit thomasjamesdc.com.
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